Global, November 2012

Thank you to Australian adoptee Dave Medhurst and family for sharing updated photos of the Theosophic Thong Thien Hoc orphanage from his recent trip back to visit his Vietnamese family. Read more here.

Melbourne October 2012

Vietnamese adoptees Dr Indigo Willing and Dominic Golding joined Korean adoptees HeeRa Heaser and Dr Jessica Walton for a panel talk chaired by Korean adoptee author and activist Jane Jeong Trenka in Melbourne, October 2012.  The panel talk was part of the 10th Australian Adoption Conference. See Day 1 and Day 2 of the program here.  In a later presentation, a key note featuring Jane Jeong Trenka, a call for signatures for a petition to include overseas mothers in an apology to mothers also featured at the conference.

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